Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Mar 06, at 01:01, felix winkelmann wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Vincent Manis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of weeks ago, I posted a draft of a new version of Chapter 1 of the manual, and asked for comments. There have been a few things added, and I think that the

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Mar 06, at 09:08, Ashley Bone wrote: I'd suggest combining the paragrapsh on the MinGW/msys builds and just noting that makefiles exist for cmd.exe and msys. Done. John Cowan asked what the point of having both flavors. Back when I was doing Windows stuff, I normally built things

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread John Cowan
Vincent Manis scripsit: John Cowan asked what the point of having both flavors. Back when I was doing Windows stuff, I normally built things via bash scripts (just as I do today on OSX). I did use MinGW/MSys (curse their weird capitalization) for exactly that, once or twice. But most of my

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Mar 06, at 21:22, John Cowan wrote: Quite so, which is why I'd suggest that the msys version be scrapped and that everyone on Windows use either the cygwin or the mingw version. Well, I actually don't care one way or the other. I'll change the documentation if a consensus